Nancy writebol biography
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In the closing months of 1989, a brutal civil war erupted in Liberia and soon engulfed the small West African country. At the time, T. Abraham Browne was in high school, and the senseless killings forced him and his siblings to flee for their lives to escape the bloodshed. They reached a refugee camp where Abraham would spend the next 10 years.
If that horror wasn’t enough for someone so young to experience, Abraham would face another country-wide crisis that swept through Liberia about 25 years later. This time it was Ebola. Abraham said, “Compared to the war, it was even more deadly because Ebola was an unseen enemy. It was just by touch and then you were infected and that was it.”
So many family members lost their lives. They lost their loved ones. Abraham’s little sister contracted Ebola. When Abraham got word, he rushed to go see her. Her eyes were swollen when he arrived. Tragically, she died.
“It was the most difficult part of our lives,” Abraham said. “We tried to withstand.” As he recalled this heart-rending period, tears welled in his eyes, and his voice cracked with emotion. Then he wiped the tears with his fingers. “I never thought I would have the strength and the courage to say, ‘Okay, I can still go ahead.’”
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Surviving Ebola
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| Director Bruce Ribner checks crowd the proviso of a patient join Ebola beginning Emory Hospital's isolation u • Ebola Survivor Nancy Writebol: All Doctors Could Say Was 'We Are So Sorry'Nancy Writebol was certain she just had malaria. It was common in Liberia, and she’d been working long hours supporting the team treating Ebola patients, hours that kept her out late in the evenings, when the mosquitoes were most active. Her fever and achiness could have been early symptoms of Ebola, but she told NBC News in an interview before a press conference Wednesday that they also fit the more common illness. It was late July and she’d felt well enough to have dinner with her husband and co-worker David, and one of the doctors, in their home in Monrovia. David and the doctor left for an all-staff meeting, and Nancy lay down to rest. “David came in shortly after they left and he said, ‘Nancy I have something I need to tell you,’” she said in an interview at the Charlotte, North Carolina headquarters of her employer, the missionary group SIM USA. “He said, ‘Nancy, Kent has Ebola,’ and my heart sank. And then David said, ‘and so do you.’” As the two spoke in separate interviews with NBC News, Dr. Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol constantly referred to their concern for one another. Writebol and Brantly are the first two Americans to have conquered the Ebola virus that is ravaging West |